BryLin Behavioral Health System Hires New Chief Medical Officer

Buffalo, NY, September 24, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Behavioral Health Leader in Western New York Selects Experienced Physician Executive to Provide Leadership for Clinical Operations as well as Medical Management

BryLin Behavioral Health System in Buffalo, NY, has hired Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Gupta is an experienced physician executive with more than 30 years of healthcare experience in hospitals, medical groups, and health systems.

Dr. Gupta also serves as a consulting adult and geriatric psychiatrist at the DENT Neurological Institute and is the Medical Director at Endeavor Health Services Clinic, formerly Mid-Erie Treatment Services, in Cheektowaga, NY. He also consults at multiple skilled nursing facilities and a PACE program. He has maintained clinical appointments at two medical schools as Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and SUNY at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He also serves as a psychiatry preceptor for Daemen College and D' Youville College physician assistant programs. In 2012 he was awarded the clinician of the year award by the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrists.

His residency was completed at SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, NY followed by a fellowship at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Gupta is Board Certified in general psychiatry (1993) and geriatric psychiatry (1996).

BryLin Behavioral Health System services include BryLin Hospital, an (88) bed psychiatric hospital where care is provided for children, adolescents, and adults, and BryLin Behavioral Health Center, where both outpatient mental health care and outpatient substance use disorder care is offered. The System serves the Western New York region and several counties in Central New York. BryLin’s mission is to be the first choice for healing, wellness and recovery through innovative and individualized care.

Founded in 1955, BryLin Behavioral Health System is family owned and is Upstate New York’s only private provider of comprehensive behavioral health care. BryLin offers a variety of specialized mental health care and substance use disorder treatment programs for children and adolescents, adults, and older adults.